After the video chip "fix"---now what

I taped a few palying cards together to "fix" the iBook G4 video chip thing. Closed the case. After start up a CD that had been trapped was spit out.
Success I thought, until,the start up brought me to the " where the heck is my hard drive" blinking folder. I attached a firewire cable to my emac and retarted in the "firewire mode" but no hard drive was accessible from my emac, So, now I have a phantom hard drive on my iBook G4 and clearly it is unuseable. Could I have damaged something by putting those cards under the cover? AND if not, is it time to have someone smarter than me fix it correctly :-/.
Thanks

Resetting PRAM and NVRAM
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.
That worked for me when I fixed my video chip problem. I think I had to do it a few times though.

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